2024-09-26- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday September twenty six. I'm Matt Jones on a cloudy, overcast morning here in Lexington, Kentucky. We are at the KS Bar and Grill. I got Ryan Lemon, I got Drew Franklin. Got a guy here from Louisville who's come in for the show. Marios walking around on his phone doing his thing. You can give to Shanna Clark's Pumping Shop full line eight five nine two eighty seven, A vision Auto glass text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two, five four in this distant sponsored by the T. J.

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Speaker 4: Smith Office called TJ He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: Uh it is the hurricane is like about to hit what Tallahassee?

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Speaker 4: Is that right? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: The Florida panhandles about to get hammered, maybe getting hammered right now. We were just kind of calm before the storm for us because we're gonna get it by by for a lot afternoon.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: A lot of the high school games have gotten moved up to uh tonight because they're supposed to be so much bad weather.

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Speaker 4: I was looking at the path to Oxford.

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Speaker 3: You actually kind of miss it a little bit, hopefully, so hopefully the we won't hit it the game. They are predicting rain for the game. I don't think it's the hurricane kind of rain, but they.

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Speaker 5: Wondering what what it would be for game time in the Georgia.

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Speaker 4: Alabama could be drenched.

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Speaker 6: Yuh so, uh, we'll see what happens. Yeah, sounding it's gonna be very severe. I hope everyone's all right all right once it hits, and om Shannon's got his place on the golf.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's in your ways, Shannon, but right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know it doesn't look good right now, so I just have to keep an eye on it. All my stuff is in my condo from the front port so it doesn't blow away. But we'll see.

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Speaker 3: Luck Hurricane Helene, Is that right, Helene?

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Speaker 4: Helene? Helene?

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Speaker 3: Why you gotta be so mean? I hope it ends up. Okay, So we had a lot to get to today. I want to talk talk a little bit of basketball. But I've waited a long time to ask you my question.

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Speaker 5: You were so excited about this one question you asked last time.

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Speaker 3: We don't know it, so I was very I was very excited about because of how I came up with. Okay, you have to understand when I when I do my trivia, I sit down and like my philosophy is you want questions with multiple answers, where if you have knowledge, you can get it, but if you don't have knowledge, you can guess.

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Speaker 4: That way everyone can play, right.

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Speaker 3: I like it because I don't like questions where it's like, give the four layers of the sun, and if you don't know it, what are you gonna do? Like you just would sit there and stare out in space. So I like ones that if you don't know, at least you can have a guess, but that makes them hard to write because that's a specific kind of question.

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Speaker 4: Right, So the.

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Speaker 3: UK basketball ones, I try to have at least one UK sports when every time yes, and usually they've been stat based. But I was sitting there thinking, Okay, Mark Pope is the new code? Yes, what can I do that somehow connects.

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Speaker 4: To Mark Pope? Okay?

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Speaker 3: And then I thought about something. Mark Pope's name, Drew, I don't know if you know this. Four letters in the first name, four letters in the last name. I don't know if people know. Did you know that I did? Well, I mean maybe you did, But did you think about it? Were you like that's interesting?

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Speaker 4: Four and four?

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Speaker 3: And then I thought about it. That's kind of rare that a first name and a last name are the same amount of letters. So I looked it up and since nineteen ninety twelve scholarship players at Kentucky have had a name that the same number of letters in the first and last name, and.

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Speaker 4: It was either four or five letters.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so same numbers of letters in the first name and last name, but either four or five letters.

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Speaker 4: There are twelve twelve and so.

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Speaker 3: Last night I said, you have to name ten of the twelve. Now I gave them one. I gave him the hardest one, which was Joey Hart, because I didn't think anybody would get Joey Hart. So now we're at eleven. So I would like to see if you all can get how many of them? Let me say two of them are a little obscure, but most of them are names of people that were fairly prominent. Can you get any any of the leet right away?

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Speaker 4: What? John Wall? John Wall?

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Speaker 3: That was the one I said, if you didn't get John Wall, you should be kicked out and made to go home.

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Speaker 4: You have to you have to get John Wall.

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Speaker 2: Right sha, Tony Dunk go to me.

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Speaker 3: Those were the two that were the most obvious. John Wall and Tony Dilk. Those are the two easy ones. What about the others?

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Speaker 5: Robbie Moss, Robbie well done?

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Speaker 4: See you know him?

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Speaker 3: So that hard games. Let me just say Robbie Moss was one very few people got. Really, yes, they didn't think of Robbie Moss anyone else.

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Speaker 4: Don't want to just do dead air here, but yeah, dead air.

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Speaker 3: But I but but I've got I've got a few I don't also want you to think about it, because then you will just sit there and not listen to the rest.

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Speaker 4: Of the second one. Yes, Jody Meeks. Jody Meeks is one.

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Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, so the average team got six, so you all, in seconds got full.

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Speaker 4: Uh so I'm impressed with you on that.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to give you just a couple more seconds to think anymore.

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Speaker 2: We go on all time, right, No.

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Speaker 3: Since nineteen ninety it's Patino on, Patino on. I'm sure there were many before that, but patino.

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Speaker 6: On trying anybody feel like if we had the normal set up we could get through a.

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Speaker 3: You probably could, but we can't have dead air. So, just so you know what the rest of them were the one almost no one got. Excuse me, but I think they should have Rajon Rondo five and five, Chuck Hayes, okay, James Young five and five, Bobby Perry friends with him wearing one of these songs that there's a band saying yes, uh Tyler Hero Yeah. Now the two that were very hard, uh, Quade Green I would have been yeah, and.

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Speaker 5: Devin ask you to obscure guys will forget about the even play the Kentucky at some point different line.

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Speaker 3: Now, can you see why I'm so proud of myself at coming up with that question. Corey Price, who knows everything, he only got nine of the eleven he was not able to get.

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Speaker 4: He did not get Devin, ask you or Quade.

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Speaker 5: That tells me alone how hard of a question it was. If Corey Price didn't get all of them. It was a UK basketball question.

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Speaker 4: I'm proud of us. Yeah, you fly on the fly. All right. Let me just give you a couple more.

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Speaker 3: What are the four private colleges in Kentucky and the four in Tennessee with the highest enrollment? Four private colleges in Kentucky and four in Tennessee with the highest.

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Speaker 5: Enrollment Trevecca Nazarene Tennessee. What are those words in Tennessee? I know, yeah, we played them in baseball time.

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Speaker 3: You just you thought one of the answers You think I would use Traveca Nazarene as one of the.

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Speaker 5: Answers I think of private school in Tennessee. Yes, Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt.

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Speaker 2: I was I was about to jump in there, but Ryan got it first.

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Speaker 4: That's Vanderbilt.

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Speaker 3: Do the Tennessee Ones first, because because the Tennessee Ones you've heard of all these These are not Triveca, not Nazarenes.

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Speaker 4: These are our regular schools.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of what's I don't know what's private and what's not.

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Speaker 4: I mean Belmont said Lipscom. David Lipscomb is right. And then Lincoln Memorial.

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Speaker 3: Really that's one of the top one now has an enrollment of forty five hundred kids.

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Speaker 4: Little Harrigate, Tennessee. Isn't that crazy?

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Speaker 5: It is crazy at school? You said it one it was close to closing. I think when you were in school, correct, I thought it.

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Speaker 3: Would close and now it's just grown ex All right, what about the Kentucky Wits.

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Speaker 4: What's the biggest private school? This is easy? Bellman, Well, Bellerman's fourth, So you're on the list. Anybody know we should know? Uh? Well, Georgetown no. Number one. Cumberland, Cumberland, that's the biggest.

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Speaker 3: Yes, come big, Yeah that then Campbell's Vallier And then how does Shannon not get Lindsey.

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Speaker 2: Wilson that was one of the top four.

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Speaker 3: That's one of the four. High People don't realize Transient Center are not that big. That Transient Center only have like a thousand people. Center has a little bit more, I think, but not very.

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Speaker 2: So both of my schools, Lindsay wasn't.

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Speaker 4: Name schools got it, and you didn't get either one.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna guess Bellerman, but you keep letting Ryan guess first.

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Speaker 3: So the last Kentucky question, Okay, I want you to think about the most common names for a town in America. All right, okay, so the names that you hear the most in states. There are fifteen top fifteen. Eight of them have a town in Kentucky with that name with more than four thousand people that live there. So do you understand the question? Yeah, you take the common that I lost for How about that? Ryan kept up and I lost her.

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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to make sure that the.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen towns that are the most common names for towns in America, eight of them are in Kentucky and have at least four thousand people that live in it.

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Speaker 4: What are the next? This one's hard. Only nobody got more than four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now you know, I don't think they're big enough. Though I had a guess I was Springfield.

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Speaker 4: Springfield has over four thousand people.

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Speaker 3: Springfield, every Springfield, almost everywhere. It's not the most common name by the way is it not? But it's one of the eight. There's four thousand people that live in Springfield, Kentucky.

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Speaker 5: Does Washington count.

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Speaker 3: Washington is a county. It would have been on the list if it was a town. Ours is a county and Mount Washington it's not the same count so that one didn't make okay.

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Speaker 5: Jeffersonville Jefferson No, No, Jeffersonville.

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Speaker 4: Richmond, Richmond is not on the list. Surprising.

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Speaker 3: I would have thought Richmond has been on the list. Anybody else want to have a guess? Hey, we're back? Newport is one? Do you still haven't named the most common name for a town in America? Forty five of the fifty states have this name?

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Speaker 4: Is a town? Forty five of the fifties Greenville? Greenville is one?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, good, guess it's three. You got three of eight. That's pretty good. Does anybody want other guesses?

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Speaker 4: Anyone?

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Speaker 5: Anderson No, that's a county too, I keep saying county.

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Speaker 4: Number one. The most common name for a town in America is Franklin. Franklin, Franklin.

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Speaker 3: Right there, it was right there, that's your name. Drew number two Georgetown, Really there are Georgetown? In thirty one state. Then after that Lebanon, where we're going tomorrow. I had no idea. There were so many. Well, you wonder why there's so many. It's like thirty three Lebanons.

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Speaker 4: We weren't worried about all.

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Speaker 3: The Springfield Greenville was said, you said Newport, and then the last two Dayton, Dayton, Dayton, Kentucky, which is up in northern Kentucky. And then you were close with Richmond. Winchester is the other one, Winchester.

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Speaker 5: I was trying to think of you last names that would from the Revolutionary War days. Other states would all had the same name.

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Speaker 4: So those were some of the questions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, we tell the other part of it, Shannon, which was Ryan assembled a team to.

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Speaker 4: Play in truth.

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Speaker 3: Okay, he called around, he got a team, and then guess what, he.

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Speaker 4: Didn't show up.

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Speaker 3: Ryan created a team and then he didn't come and part of that team was apparently Drew, who also did.

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Speaker 4: Well. Ryan told the people here you.

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Speaker 5: Were supposed I didn't know idea.

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Speaker 3: So the people that came here Shannon to play on Ryan's team, Ryan didn't.

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Speaker 4: Wasn't they teammate?

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Speaker 2: Are you a.

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Speaker 3: Guneral manager of the team, and name yourself a starter and then not come.

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Speaker 5: I didn't really have a team. I had a table. Everybody I called. I didn't have a team other than Crystal, and I think Kristal was bringing a friend.

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Speaker 4: Well, Crystal and her friend were your whole team. That was the whole team.

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Speaker 2: Ryan preached for ten minutes yesterday, don't quit on your team, and he literally.

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Speaker 4: Good call, good call. I didn't even get it in IL deals.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Ryan didn't even get paid. And why did you? Why were you not here?

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Speaker 5: Did you want me to tell the story.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know why you would.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to hear the story.

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Speaker 5: I was giving plasma yesterday. We did our show at CSL plasma like five or six years ago, and just every now and then I just go and give plasma. So I went at four o'clock.

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Speaker 3: I didn't leave till I don't believe you were giving I was at eight o'clock at night.

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Speaker 5: Close at seventh.

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Speaker 3: I didn't walk out of there until you were giving plasma. I'm supposed to believe, Shannon, this man was giving plasma at eight o'clock at yep.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just I gott behavior really literally got stuck on his team for money.

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Speaker 4: For Bunny somewhere else. Unbelievable quick plasma.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, our buddy Cryst will probably take tournament and verify.

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Speaker 4: I was there. You were there for four hours? Yes, giving how much plasma do you need?

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Speaker 5: They couldn't get it out of my arm. They were poking all over this arm, then they poked on the other arm. It was coming out like super slow.

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Speaker 4: For a good sign to go home, Yeah, you don't have any more, but you're stuck and you're all hooked up.

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Speaker 5: You can't get out and leave, So I just stayed there.

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Speaker 4: Whatever.

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Speaker 3: That's the blamest excuse I was keeping eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Mister Plasma over here quit on his team, just like Sluka at UNLV.

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Speaker 4: I've got one more for your game, Shannon Griggsby.

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Speaker 5: Same anoun, remembers and letters.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but it's.

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Speaker 6: Four or five letters. It's not Still it's impressive. He's seven seven okay, Well, I mean it was just for.

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Speaker 4: Me too.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think I've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We will take a break. Text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. We'll talk a little pope, right, after this KSR.

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Speaker 4: Walk go back.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven one verse writes Matt uh Ryan Lemon is like Bobby Petrino abandoning his team right before the game. Ryan Lee, O, what's somebody photoshop ride on the UNLV player?

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 5: That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: I told you that was all. That was the lead of every show. Yes, yes, it was a UNLV kid. Yes, it seemed to me though most people tend to be siding with him and saying they kind of under the NCAA even made a statement that made it almost seem like they were blaming UNLV a little bit like the NCAA statement was almost like we've got to make it to where their signed contracts that are transparent, which I thought was kind of interesting.

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Speaker 6: See they're running back and now someone at USC maybe there's not been three players to do it, and.

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Speaker 3: There are three players what the running back was like fourth string but but but still clearly I think if there's two from a school. Yeah, UNLV was not giving at least what one coach said. The guy ran the collective said, we didn't not promise, but he said it was one of the assistant coaches, and and honestly, one hundred thousand dollars does kind of sound like the number where they were just like, we'll give you a hundred thousand dollars, Like you just made a number up, Shannon, you know, and he's like, I thought it would uh, one hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's too round of a number, round promised to somebody.

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Speaker 3: To me, if you're gonna lie about a number, it needs to be very specific, like it needs to be like ninety six thousand, five hundred if you just say one hundred thousand dollars, I'm assuming that that number was Like the assistant coach was just trying to say something. Sure, you know what I mean, monopoly money, you're just yeah, it's just I mean, if you're not gonna pay him, you might as well say a million dollars.

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Speaker 5: Now, one thing you've taught us in this show over the years, you go in negotiations, you gotta have some leverage. Yeah, now that backup quarterback, you know, he's got all kinds of leverage, doesn't.

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Speaker 4: Do you think he should walk away?

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Speaker 5: Till he threatened, look, you gotta pay me all up front, right now, or I'm walking.

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Speaker 4: To contender in the group of five to be a player. Oh no, they're definitely a contender.

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Speaker 6: So if the QB two goes up AND's like, hey, I need fifty thousand or I'm out.

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Speaker 4: And you know, the other thing was UNLV was deciding yesterday whether or not to go to the PAC twelve and they ended up deciding to stay in the Mountain West. What a terrible look.

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Speaker 3: Shit, And it would have been if the player didn't get the money and then they went to the PAC twelve on the same day.

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Speaker 2: That would be a bad look. If you're the backup quarterback, going back to that conversation, do you try to negotiate or do you just say, hey, I'll play for free. I'm getting a great opportunity now I'm the starting quarter starting quarterback for UNLV.

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Speaker 4: I mean again, it all depends on what the deals are.

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Speaker 3: I think if I I think, actually the biggest loser in this ends up being UNLV, because now players in the future are not.

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Speaker 4: Gonna think they'll get their money.

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Speaker 3: That's true, right, I mean I would think, now, if you're gonna play at UNLV, do you almost have to get the money up front? Right, because, like you know, they're are now at least two guys who feel like they did not get what they were promised.

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Speaker 6: If I'm on their recruiting board right now, being recruited for next year, I'm looking at this and saying, Okay, everything you've promised me, why I should I believe any of it if you've bet now had two players leave midseason for you not following through.

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Speaker 3: So it made me sort of think about how UK's Innisle situation has gone with football, and I think UK's situation has gone shockingly well. I think both collectives Ryan have the basketball and football.

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Speaker 4: They have issues, but they have different issues.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so the football collective I think has has been funded surprisingly well to me, but the funding has tended to be from only a few sources, which is both good and bad. It's good because it only has a few people you kind of have to please, but it's bad in the sense that, like if they ever changed their.

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Speaker 4: What are you gonna do?

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Speaker 3: Right, I've been told and again I don't know this for sure, but this is kind of what I've heard that like fifty to sixty percent of the money from the collective has come from like four people all right, which is.

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Speaker 4: Fine as long as you keep those four people.

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Speaker 3: I think basketball maybe has a little bit of the opposite thing, which is I think they have a lot of numbers but are still kind of maybe searching for some big big fish. I think Mark Pope has helped that. I think a lot of the big fish of UK athletics had kind of been had kind of run off col not runoff as mean they ran them off. I'm saying like they didn't have a relationship with cal and so now I think the key, you know, so they almost each have a strength that is the opposite of the other one. And I think Drew the they got to find a way to both be good at both. I think the football one has to get more numbers of general fans and the basketball one probably needs a couple more big fish to completely buy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's great to have big donors. We're lucky to have the ones we have. There's even been times I've heard where they've had to call them like, hey, need you to help out this month and they step in.

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Speaker 4: Happened.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but I mean the moment you know they're not gonna live forever, they might not decide to do that.

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Speaker 4: Forever.

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Speaker 6: If they were to step away, you got to be prepared because that's just gonna disappear immediately.

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Speaker 3: And I think the people that when we lose and this could happen Saturday, who start writing, you know, time to get rid of Mark Stoops. I think it's very important to recognize that the football donors are Mark stoops loyalist.

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Speaker 4: Would you agree? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Mark Stoops amongst the things, he deserves the most credit for the way he has cultivated football donors and they are personal to him, meaning almost all all of these people did not donate to football before.

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Speaker 4: They absolutely did not.

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Speaker 3: So when you think about Mark stoops future, you also have to think about what if you lost on those people and you're starting over from scratch, right. I think that's something people have to recognize because he he Mark Stoops is the best person at this school in my lifetime at cultivating big time donors at any sport. Would you agree with that? Yeah, you probably have to go back to joe By Hall, to someone who had better.

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Speaker 4: I'm serious, yes, you know, especially when it comes to football.

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Speaker 5: That's what, like you said, what Stoops has done is maybe the most impressive thing he's done is he's been here is to get big money boosters to donate to football.

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Speaker 4: They specifically to football. To football, They're like, we are giving this money to football. Yep.

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Speaker 5: And in the past, as we all know, all the big money donors were to basketball, none to football.

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Speaker 3: And it flipped and it flipped under col Col had a couple friends of his that were don't but they were like friend Col donors, not UK donors. And I think the people that historically had given to UK basketball basically for a lot of them one or two exceptions, kind of abandoned it because they were kind of tired of Cal, to be honest with you, because Cal did his own thing, and so it was fine until Nil came and then it became an issue.

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Speaker 6: You don't want your boosters to have a bunch of control. But when Stoops is done and they have to make a higher theyn't want to consider the opinions of those because you don't want to bring in someone they've never met, never even really heard of, because you're not gonna be getting the same fundraising. You have a Stoops who goes out, hangs out these people, golfs with them, knows them personally.

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Speaker 4: The eighties and nineties. This program, especially the eighties were kind of.

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Speaker 3: Run by boosters and then they kind of got run off, and now they're gonna be back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they need them back, and now they need him back. And that's kind of how it is.

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Speaker 3: If I'm nine eight twenty two eighty seven, We'll take your call seven seven two four five two five pour on the tech.

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Speaker 2: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Tekey Sports Radio. Where'd my guy from Louisville? Like he was in here and.

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Speaker 4: He was left.

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Speaker 5: He was gonna enjoy the whole show, and like he just gone and then bolted.

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Speaker 3: You can come out out for lunch today. Uh, by the way, for the uk oh Miss game on Saturday. It's gonna be first come, first serve to come in, so we're not gonna take reservations. I would suggest we open at eleven games at noon. I would suggest try to get here a little bit early to get your table. But because it's noon, we're not gonna do the reservation. It's just gonna be the first come, first serve it'll be. I say this all the time. I think the best atmosphere in here is a road for it is just because people are all into it. And if we win, that's where people end up on the bar, like dancing and all that stuff. If I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty said we're gonna do this like an ask anything Thursday, so you can any topic you want come on in. I got contacted yesterday, uh Ryan from a national media organization contemplating doing a feature on us that is kind of like, is this the most popular local sports radio.

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Speaker 4: Show in America? And you say yes? No, I said, I would definitely.

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Speaker 3: They're still deciding whether they're gonna do it, but they, uh they asked me if they wanted to, could they like talk to me next week?

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Speaker 4: And and so they're but that would be kind of neat, wouldn't it.

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Speaker 5: It's very neat when somebody represent recognize I.

00:24:36
Speaker 3: Haven't written it yet, but I mean they're they're they're at least, but like it's kind of cool that they.

00:24:40
Speaker 4: Were considered cool.

00:24:41
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, make sture you give us a heads up. They come in for showers, need to shower.

00:24:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think they're gonna come in.

00:24:49
Speaker 3: But I think if you're if you're saying that we need to shower, they come in good.

00:24:53
Speaker 4: I think that. But isn't that kind of cool? It is?

00:24:56
Speaker 6: Uh, they write a show story about our showers. No, it's very cool. What can we get a hint?

00:25:00
Speaker 4: No, because if they don't do it, I don't want to put them. I'm always interested in shining a light on it. Put them, put them on the spot.

00:25:07
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not don't get me wrong, it's not like, uh, you know, it's HP New York Times, but it's it's it's a you know, they do these kinds of things, and they the person, the person that wrote me, said I have a question for you, how in the world are you all so high on the Apple and Spotify podcastuck? And I was like, I don't really know how to answer that, so I just wrote back, because we're allo it's listen.

00:25:31
Speaker 5: In the radio world, it is unbelievable how our local sports talk show can beat like country.

00:25:37
Speaker 3: Radio, or how about the fact that it beats like a lot of days like Dan Patrick.

00:25:41
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean that's a little a local show like this.

00:25:44
Speaker 3: That's that's crazy. On the podcast rank. Yeah, so you know, anyway, before I go to the phones, I'm nine two eighty seven. Have you seen the story Drew about how people are blaming Taylor Swift for Travis Kelcey not playing.

00:26:02
Speaker 4: He's had he hasn't caught as much during the first three weeks him to do two Tudies. He had zero zero Tuddies.

00:26:10
Speaker 3: But they're saying, well, is that because he's partying with Taylor Swift. Now I have a pretty strong opinion about this, but I wondered, what was your take. You're kind of our pop culture. You follow this the scenes.

00:26:22
Speaker 4: And what's happening on the streets.

00:26:23
Speaker 6: I mean, there's no stopping it because it's it's it's out there. But I just cannot grasp why anyone would care what Taylor Swift is doing relative to the Chiefs.

00:26:33
Speaker 4: How but do you think it's her fault he's not playing? Well? Do you know what these athletes do on their night off?

00:26:39
Speaker 6: A lot of them probably a lot worse than Travis sitting at home with Taylor Swift.

00:26:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, they said. Todd McShay I heard him.

00:26:46
Speaker 3: He was on Rhyme Orusill's podcast, and he was like, let's just admit it type. Travis Kelsey is out of shape, and he's not in shape because he's out partying all the time with Taylor Swift and doing TV and movies. He was like an old man ranting on there. You think that's fair, Ryan.

00:27:03
Speaker 5: Travis Kelsey is one of the best tight ends of our generation. I mean, he's awesome, and the fact he's only got what like eight catches I think maybe through three games or something like that. Give it time, slow down, and there's a lot of football left. He's gonna end up being as one of the superstars as we know he can be.

00:27:17
Speaker 6: I would say that's probably more because what is he like thirty five years old? He's gonna have a decline eventually at some point.

00:27:22
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, he's three and zero true. I mean if what every game true, right, that's pretty good.

00:27:28
Speaker 4: Yep.

00:27:30
Speaker 3: I think he's getting blamed for the fact, like if his girlfriend was named Sarah Jenkins and he was doing all the same things, it's just no one would know, right. So if he went if he was doing let's just say he was doing all the exact same things, you just didn't know who his girlfriend was, would they be saying this is because of Sarah Jenkins.

00:27:54
Speaker 5: Why are you throwing Sarah Jenkins under the book.

00:27:56
Speaker 4: Because Sarah Jenkins wild?

00:27:57
Speaker 3: But I would they throw No, No, it's only because we know who he's dating that people say that, and you know he is, like he's gonna be in a TV series. I'm sure he did other things, but like, I don't. I think it's so rude to like, if you want to say, well, he's not in shape, but to blame her, like, I mean, do they blame him if her voice is not in key on a concert?

00:28:23
Speaker 6: There are lots of athletes who are very busy in their spare time, do lots of things, have girlfriends, maybe multiple girl girlfriends. Philip Rivers had ten kids. He wouldn't say, man, he's not focus on football. He's taking care of ten kids.

00:28:36
Speaker 3: No, they Well, Ryan Russilla did say to Todd mcshaye, you think he's the only dude.

00:28:40
Speaker 4: With a girlfriend, and it's just because everyone knows who she is. Yeah, all right, who's up for her? Shit? Let's go to Jake. How are you? Jake? Hey, what's going on today? Fellas? What's up?

00:28:52
Speaker 5: Uh?

00:28:52
Speaker 7: So, I was thinking about the punter situation, and I completely agree that I would rather take the gamble and have this sixty yard punts. But I play golf, and I know a couple of you guys play golf too, and I was just wondering, would you rather have a two hundred yard drive straight every single time?

00:29:11
Speaker 4: Or would you rather take.

00:29:12
Speaker 7: The gamble again and maybe one out of every five drives it goes like two.

00:29:17
Speaker 4: Hundred and fifty, you know what I mean?

00:29:18
Speaker 3: Like, that's what I just spray my gott My golf game is. I don't I only swing hard. It's either gonna go two seventy five to two eighty five to ninety straight, or it's gonna be in a different area code. And to me, that's a lot better because it's a lot more fun. If I go two hundred yards, I'm gonna have like a four iron into the green. I'd much rather have the eight or nine and occasionally have to chip out of the woods or depend on how you look at it, pick it up and kiss it.

00:29:49
Speaker 6: And when you do spray one of the woods, it manages to go in the farewell well.

00:29:52
Speaker 3: I really good bounces sometimes off tree. You know, you have to know the angles, the angles of the pine.

00:30:00
Speaker 4: But I won our punner. First of all, we don't know that he shanks them seventeen yards.

00:30:06
Speaker 6: My understanding is it's not even that he shanks him, it's he holds it a little long and they're worried about it getting blocked. It's not even a shank situation. It just takes him a split second longer to get it off.

00:30:14
Speaker 3: Okay, but let's say let's say he it won't be one out of five, But let's say one out of thirty five were to get blocked, but in the other ones he kicks it twenty yards farther. Is that worth it?

00:30:27
Speaker 5: It is to me, I'm taking that every single time, especially in a game like Saturday, where I think flipping the field could be really important, keeping old Missus offense, you know, off the field as long as much as possible. I'm going with that that guy.

00:30:38
Speaker 4: And I'm with you.

00:30:39
Speaker 6: I feel like we think he just shanks it all the time. He was an All American last year. Y, I don't shank him becoming an All American.

00:30:46
Speaker 3: Like they acts like he's like me out there top of them, everybody, he's about to, Yeah, cover your heads, who knows what is gonna land you? No, he's a Punter of the Year in the FCS. Last year, he was a first team All American. He's not just some I just don't I guess what I don't understand is if you decided to play him against oh I don't know. Uh yeah, well Ohio was a different kind of game. But if you decide to play and he punts once and he kicks it fifty eight yards, what could have changed your mind about it? Like, like, what would then go? Well, we still don't know yet. I mean, you go, you throw him out there, right.

00:31:26
Speaker 4: I think you do.

00:31:27
Speaker 5: And we all trust Max a lot more than then. We'll trust each other when it comes to punting and kicking and things.

00:31:33
Speaker 4: And I trust Max more than you all on punning.

00:31:35
Speaker 5: Amen, So you know, if he's the guy, I don't Maybe they were trying to just give the first guy just first crack at it.

00:31:42
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know.

00:31:44
Speaker 3: This is not I mean, it's not home room, and you want to treat everybody equally. You got to put the best guy out there.

00:31:50
Speaker 6: And I don't know this, and this sounds crazy to be but Max kind of suggested one time that he punts it so far it messes up their coverage. Hey, I don't believe that sounds wild to me. You can that's a phrase, but I get it. But still I'm just I'm throwing out what could be the case that seems outrageous to.

00:32:07
Speaker 4: Who's up next?

00:32:08
Speaker 2: Shit, let's go to John John, Go ahead.

00:32:11
Speaker 4: John, Yeah, it's John for green will Day. Hey we mentioned your town earlier.

00:32:18
Speaker 8: Yeah, I heard that a little bit earlier on my way off from work, but I didn't want to go back to the n AL hodout. Do you think it's going to come to point worthy recruits once they get to money begger, they like they're going to ask if something in writing?

00:32:33
Speaker 3: Oh, I think, well, first of all, I think a lot of them do it now. I mean I think a lot of these are in writing now. But I think the n c a A that that's a rule that I think the NCAA can make that will stand up in court, which is to require all the deals in writing. So yes, I think this kid will probably lead to a pretty fundamental change, and I think that'll be good.

00:32:55
Speaker 8: Actually, I believe you're right after that what I was thinking it was going to have to go to to start with. When I first started talking about the nise the way it's set up. I mean, it's just you can promise anything and deliver nothing.

00:33:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's exactly right. I appreciate the call.

00:33:12
Speaker 3: I actually think while this kid took some bad publicity for a while, I think they will he will end up leading to a change. I think the NCAA can make a rule that all in aile deals have to be in writing, and I think a court would uphold that, and I think that would be a rule that would be better for everybody.

00:33:30
Speaker 5: Why what would be the negative against it?

00:33:34
Speaker 3: There might be schools that are doing things that they don't want people to know and they don't want to put it in writing. Right, So one of the things about putting in writing is there's a copy out there for players to show other players what they're making, and like it sets the market, and I think it's probably I think right now there's probably teams where one kid's making a lot more than the other, but they don't all know about it. I think this if you if everything's in writing, like there's a record of it, and some schools might not want that, but I think that the NCAA could reasonably say for the protection of the schools and the kid. We're making you do this and write yeah.

00:34:12
Speaker 6: I mentioned this yesterday, but we need we need the slucas to clean it up a little bit. You need UNLV to get caught over promising and not paying.

00:34:19
Speaker 4: Guys.

00:34:19
Speaker 6: There's now two people on that team. I feel like it's got to get a little bit ugly for someone to step in and you know, get this on the tracks. We've been calling it the wild West for a couple of years now. Now we're finally seeing that it is some actual things happening.

00:34:31
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00:34:43
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Speaker 3: Go grab a pair at Shady Rays three hundred thousand and five star reviews, Shady rays dot com. One in Lexington, one in Louisville. We'll take a break of be right back this Cassar. Welcome back to sports radio. Tomorrow. We are at Ham Days in Marion County. Uh, it'll probably be raining, at which point they'll move us in the gym. It's a show I highly recommend if you've never been, if you live in the area, because they have these country ham biscuits they bring. They are so good. I mean the ham. You ever had Country Ham Mario?

00:35:38
Speaker 4: Like, have you though? Like country ham, like the salt and all that. Yeah?

00:35:43
Speaker 2: Not Cityham?

00:35:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, not city Ham, Country Hem. That's different. So you've not had country Ham, You've only had citym Oh it's the best.

00:35:50
Speaker 3: Country Ham is so good. It's like salty and kinda I mean, you can't eat a lot of it.

00:35:54
Speaker 4: Or your heart will just lock up. But like a little bit of it is is really really good.

00:36:00
Speaker 3: You'll like it tomorrow. Man, It's really really good. And so that's tomorrow in Marion County. Four Hymn days. My friends are gonna be there because we're coming down and then leaving for Oxford. So I'm gonna have uh and when we do the hay throwing cont Yes, we're gonna have a hay throwing contest. Let's predict the order of the finish of who is able to throw a bail of hey the farthest.

00:36:20
Speaker 4: Let's say it's the four of us, Billy and Mario, Ryan. Why don't you rank? What do you think the top six will be?

00:36:27
Speaker 5: I think uh? I think you tall guys may have a little advantage with your long arms, and because of my little short arms, I can barely get that thing off the ground to start with.

00:36:34
Speaker 4: So what are you thinking?

00:36:34
Speaker 5: I'll go uh, I'll go Drew one, Matt two, Mario three, Billy four, Me five, Shannon six off Shannon okayrank okay, Shannon one, Matt tube, Drew three, Male four, Billy five six.

00:36:59
Speaker 4: We got flipped a douse. He forgot Shannon.

00:37:04
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Drew one, me too, but Shannon verry Shannon could pass me. I'll put Shannon three. Let's say Ryan four, Mario five, Billy six. I think Mario beats Billy in the battle for fifth place, but it could go either one.

00:37:22
Speaker 4: Bill Last, I love it, Shannon, what about you?

00:37:25
Speaker 2: You know what, Ryan, I'm gonna give you more credit than what you were giving yourself. I think Ryan's got that old man strength. He does have old man country strength. I'm gonna go Ryan number one. I'm gonna go me number two.

00:37:37
Speaker 4: Oh wow, you me and Drew both.

00:37:39
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Drew three, Matt four, Mario than Billy.

00:37:44
Speaker 4: Billy, Billy Last as well. Okay, Drew, what about you? Huh?

00:37:51
Speaker 6: You all were confident and more confident in me than I was myself. I'm gonna go Ryan one.

00:37:55
Speaker 4: I think Ryan could win.

00:37:57
Speaker 3: Sneaky, he's got some thinking that a little short arms day, he's got leverage.

00:38:01
Speaker 6: But go ahead, I'll go Matt to Shannon, three, Me four, Mario than Billy Billy.

00:38:12
Speaker 3: Everyone has Billy and last he gets so mad mad. But I don't. I mean, I think the battle between Mario and Billy. I think I'm gonna take Mario, aren't you?

00:38:23
Speaker 4: Oh? Easily?

00:38:24
Speaker 6: That was the That was the easiest pick, was the gap between five and because you know, right now, somewhere Billy is few me, Billy is on a farm. Billy Billy's gonna go out and look for Hay and I he already said he's gonna watch YouTube now.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: He's already been studying up like the angle and like this, he knows the launch point.

00:38:44
Speaker 4: I also think though, here, I'm gonna stand up here.

00:38:47
Speaker 3: I think me and Drew play golf, and I would assume it's the same swing, right, because you hold the you hold the ropes, and you take it back. And I would assume, like Drew and I are probably a little more flexible at that having done it, is that plausible?

00:39:04
Speaker 4: Yes, And how he plays golf though too, that's true.

00:39:07
Speaker 5: That's why I'm sticking your long arms would help you in that swing back and swinging forward.

00:39:12
Speaker 4: Then well, we'll see. I loved it. We're all pretty prettictive. I watch him go win or something, you know.

00:39:17
Speaker 5: I made him the most upset when we picked him six out of six in the Handsome contest.

00:39:22
Speaker 4: That was the ladies of KSR that did that. I did not. I was the committee. That was the committee. Who's up next? Will will go ahead?

00:39:31
Speaker 9: Will guys, I have a fair foul for you. If you're in the disco bathroom U in northern Kentucky and you walk in and push the red button and someone sitting on the toilet cusses at you. Is it fair foul to push the button again before you walk out?

00:39:48
Speaker 4: Fair? Absolutely? Fair? You could totally put more. People don't know.

00:39:53
Speaker 3: There's a gas station in northern Kentucky that has a disco ball and like all this stuff going on?

00:39:58
Speaker 4: Uh, where is it? Which which exit? I don't remember. I can't remember, but I'm not sure.

00:40:06
Speaker 3: Okay, Walton Verona X right, Yeah, and uh and and you it's really strange, it's very unique.

00:40:12
Speaker 4: But if somebody's suggesting he walked in on someone, probably Yeah.

00:40:16
Speaker 5: And if somebody's sitting there and they cuss you, absolutely you could have the right to push that buttoning in.

00:40:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate the call. I will tell you it's probably a little more graphic than need be. But I cannot go to the restroom in a public place if there's another person.

00:40:32
Speaker 4: Doing the same thing stage fright.

00:40:36
Speaker 3: I never used that phrase before, but I can't do it, especially if they're doing the same thing. It's it's like it feels like too intimate of an encounter with a stranger.

00:40:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I can't do it. Who's up next? Talk to him? Talk through it. No, I don't.

00:40:52
Speaker 5: I don't want to talk to somebody.

00:40:54
Speaker 3: I don't look someone in the eye in a public bathroom up, I won't even igno. Like if I see someone I know and they try to talk to me in a bathroom, forget it, yeah.

00:41:06
Speaker 4: Forget it. When I was okay, I'm getting off topic here. But when I was.

00:41:09
Speaker 3: At the UH at the fellowship, we were at this resort that had like unisex bathrooms. Now what it was though, was that like the men went on this side, the women that went on this side, but we shared a sink areach okay, so so like it sort of is a mixture. And in the sink area, you'd be there and then a woman and I I couldn't even look at like I couldn't like it was, I felt like I couldn't look at them. So even though I knew these people, one woman like tried to talk to me, and I was like, we.

00:41:47
Speaker 4: Have to do this outside, like we can.

00:41:49
Speaker 3: I cannot have this conversation with you standing at this sink. I'll meet you outside when we're done and then we can talk about.

00:41:57
Speaker 5: I am absolutely with you. I don't want to talk to anybody. I don't want anything talking to me. I want to get my do my duty, and get out your duty. Yeah.

00:42:08
Speaker 3: Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. That was not how I meant to end this segment, but that's okay. I want to talk about when we mentioned earlier. I told yesterday I mentioned a coach, and people were asking me about it, with Mark Pope and all that.

00:42:23
Speaker 4: I'll go ahead and expand on that when we return. This is kso